Taking the two goals, the team of Andrey Shevchenko almost suffered their first defeat in qualification for the 2018 world Cup.
In the first half, only bright red rostrum reminded who is the master of the match. Ukraine from the first minute marked territorial advantage and soon began to implement their offensive attacks into goals.
In the 24th minute, earned a penalty Kravets and Yarmolenko, albeit with difficulty, but opened the scoring in the match. It takes another three minutes Stepanenko far transfer finds Yarmolenko, the time gives a free kick, and only forward the “blue-yellow” coolly breaks into the near corner.
Leading 2:0, the Ukrainians continued to play in the same rhythm, but still closer to the half-time whistle hooked to their goal. It cost us a goal – Çalhanoğlu gave a corner, and Tufan took advantage of a positional error of a free kick and sent the ball into the net.
In the second half the hosts with three times the energy put into the possession of Andriy Pyatov. Ukraine was twice saved by the post, but the turning point came in the 57th minute after a great Kravets Sobol ricochet from the goalkeeper struck the crossbar. Ukraine could regain the advantage of two goals – instead of “blue-yellow” the remaining half an hour I had to beat off numerous attacks of the Turks.
In the 81st minute, the hosts did equalise – a judge ordered a dubious penalty for an alleged foul on Stepanenko and Çalhanoğlu surely realized the 11-meter.
Turks until the final whistle and did not let the national team of Ukraine – fortunately, a full-fledged comeback wards Fatih Terim to make are unable.
Turkey — Ukraine 2:2
Goals: Tufan, 45+1, Çalhanoğlu, 81 (penalty) — Yarmolenko, 24, Kravets, 27
Turkey: Babacan — Sparkly, Toprak, Balta (Ayhan, 46), Erkin — Moore, Tufan (Shen, 77), Topal, Çalhanoğlu — Unal (Cigerci, 46), Tosun
Ukraine: Pyatov — Butko, Kucher, Ordets, Sable — Stepanenko, Yarmolenko, Zinchenko (Sidorchuk, 46), Kovalenko, Linnet (Petryak, 81 In) — Kravets (Zozulya, 73)
Warning: Erkin, Çalhanoğlu, Sea — Ordets, Stepanenko, Sable, Zozulya
Iceland – Finland 3:2
Kosovo – Croatia 0:6
Standings: Croatia, Iceland – 4, Turkey, Ukraine – 2, Finland, Kosovo – 1.
